Keborui Primary School Under Scrutiny Over Repeated Birth Certificate Mix-Ups -POOR ADMINISTRATION AND PUPILS RECORDS IN KEBORUI OR SCHOOL
Isibania, Migori County — Parents in Makerero Ward, around Kohego Market Centre in Isibania, are raising concerns over what they describe as poor record management at Keborui Primary School, after several pupils were reportedly sent home multiple times to fetch birth certificates the school claims it can no longer locate.
What Parents Are Saying
According to accounts shared with this publication by parents in the area, the problem is not new. During the second term, some pupils were reportedly sent home two to three times to bring the same document, with the school administration each time citing the same explanation: the certificate had been "lost" or "misplaced."
Now, barely days after schools reopened for the third term on August 24–25, 2026, the same pattern has resurfaced. Some of the affected pupils have again been sent home to retrieve birth certificates their parents insist were already submitted to the school.
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"The parents are wondering if that is the work they should be doing," one parent Mwita Rioba told this Media, capturing the growing frustration in the community over what appears to be a recurring administrative failure rather than an isolated incident. Another one, Rhobi Marwa expressed her frustration about the trend of carelessness seen by the school administration which does not view the matter as disturbing. to parents
A Small Cost With a Big Sting
On paper, the cost of a birth certificate copy — roughly Ksh 10 at a local cyber café or stationery shop — sounds negligible. But for low-income earners such as mama mboga (small-scale vegetable vendors) and other informal traders in Isibania, repeated trips add up. Parents say that being asked to produce the same document three or four times in a single term can cost Ksh 30–40, money that many can ill afford to spend twice, let alone repeatedly, on paperwork that should already be on file.
Beyond the direct cost, parents point to a less visible but equally real burden: lost working time. For a parent who has already left home for the market or a day's labour, being called back — or having to send someone else — to fetch a document "already submitted" disrupts income-generating activities that many households depend on day to day.
The Bigger Question
At the centre of the complaints is a simple but pointed question: how does a school lose the same pupils' documents repeatedly, across different terms, without any apparent correction to its record-keeping systems? For parents, the recurrence — rather than a single mix-up — is what has turned a minor administrative hiccup into a matter of accountability.
Proper documentation, including safe custody of pupils' birth certificates, is a basic responsibility of school administration. Parents in Makerero Ward say they now want the school to explain what is going wrong with its filing system, and what steps, if any, are being taken to ensure families are not made to bear the repeated cost — in time and money — of an administrative failure that is not of their making.